Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-01-12
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AN Orlando, Fla, warehouse holds
$50 barrels of orange wine.
A Boston dentist has had to pay
$3.50 for pulling the wrong tooth.
ALAPoRTE, Ind, man bets he can
eat a goose per day for month.
A BosToN editor has duplicated all
the tricks Of Bishop, the mind-reader.
A EUROPEAN concert was recently
given in the palace of the Japanese Mi
kado, at Toxic, the first in the en-
pire.
WITHOUT g. miss 8 marksman broke
LOS glass balls at 25 yards rise on e.
wager at Keyport, N. j., a few days
ago.
JAPANESE orange trees are being in
PRODUCED into California. They will
give new and excellent variety OF
fruit.
THE great forest trees in Prospect
Park, Brooklyn, are being felled on &C
count of the malaria which they pro-
mote.
DURING the past year $500 tramps
were arrested and compelled to work
out fines on the chain gang in Norris
town, n. J.
THERE are only twenty hearses In
Buffalo, n Y. Oneday recently every
one of them was in use, and at the
same hour.
ABosToN sugar refinery sells sugar to
Americans at So per 100 pounds, but
it puts it on vessels for export at So
40 per 100.
A NEVADA note says that cinnamon
lol
ing plenty IN the mountains lnclOslng
Paradise Valley.
MRS. MARY PEAVEY, who died at
Greenfield, n. H, aged SO years, has
sung In the church choir in that town
more than sixty years.
The new chamber ofcommerce build
ing at Cincinnati, O., will be erected
by contractors from Worcester, Mass,
and cost about 100000.
THE trawl fishing enterprise recently
undertaken In Puget Sound has proved
very successful, soles, cod, and rock
cod being caught In abundance.
In g. recent case at Seattle, W. T.,
Judge Green held that the territorial
law pronouncing the smoking OF OPT
UNI illegal was unconstitutional.
THE mackerel fleet, ofPortland, Me-,
has returned after a miserable season,
with a total catch of 10000 barrels,
as against 10000 barrels last year.
A NEW industry recently developed
in Hancock County, Maine, is the
gathering of white pine and sprG :
cones for French and German mar
kets.
THE New York Sun says that town
consumes 6. 100000 barrels of lager
beer a year or at the rate OF about
five barrels for each man, woman and
child
THE slaughter OF Holsters at Prince
Edward Island is astounding. There
were exported the last season 1000
cases mostly To Europe which involved
the killing OF So. 100000 Holsters.
THERE are nov under contract to
be completed during the present win
ter, for service, principally on Lake
Superior, twenty-e;ght new vessels
having an aggregate capacity Of 49,
OOO
A CITIZEN of Skowhegan, Me-, has in
vented an electric light which does
away with the disagreeable kissing
and Pickering and gives q steady and
perhaps brighter light than any
other.
AN onyx quarry at New Linsin, CAL,
yielded 100 tons last month, which
were shipped to New York City recent
iy, to be made into mantels, bureau
tops, etc., while some of it will be
worked into jewelry.
1T is estimated that there are /, OOO,-
900 blind persons living to-day. In
Cairo, Egypt, where the proportion
Of blind persons to the number of in
habitants is greatest, there is one TO
every twenty residents.
A PRUssIAN official has been sent
from Breslau to Hermannstad, Tran
sylvania, for the object of studying
the nature, raising and keeping of buff
faloes, with view to introduce the
animals in Germany for farming pur-
poses.
A NEW style of paving block, for
which Is claimed some special advan-
tages Is composed of g. hollow iron
shell filled with any desired concrete,
the shell being arched underneath,
and for street paving are some inches
wide and from 10 to II long.
he h1dO uOIcOo V1O 6OlOStu
of Muscat recently sent to Queen Vic
toria are valued at $1,000. The
miscellaneous bric-a- brac which her
majesty will send to the Sultan is
valued at 50, 500, leaving a net profit
of $14 500 in favor of the Queen.
A MINE owner near Sheridan, M. T.,
reports the discovery of a new metal.
1t carries considerable gold in places,
but the latter cannot be separated
from the strange material by any proc
ess of working gold ores. The miner
al when melted is as white as silver,
but much harder.
A DAYTON, O., man has a regular
dime museum COW. 1t is like other
COWS in all respects, except that out
of it's right shoulders grow the hind
parts of the body of calf, legs, tail
and part of the body. Instead of
hoofs on these extra feet are horns,
about foot in length. The tail is
olc, +;px,o1 vu;%h q horny subc@opo